Mylodon

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mylodon \Myl"o*don\, n. [Gr. ? a mill + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a
     tooth.] (Paleon.)
     An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates,
     allied to Megatherium.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mylodon
       n : large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the
           Pleistocene in South America